Empire here or hereafter?: a postcolonial reading of the Wisdom of Solomon

This essay offers a postcolonial reading of the Wisdom of Solomon in order to explore the processes of self-identification and self-validation within Alexandrian Diaspora Judaism. It focuses on the various ways that "us" and "them" are constructed, especially the way that each gr...

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Published in:Studies in religion
Main Author: Timmer, Daniel C. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2015]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-90
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Wisdom / Alexandria / Diaspora (Religion) / Judaism / Identity / Postcolonialism / History 150 BC-50
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
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Summary:This essay offers a postcolonial reading of the Wisdom of Solomon in order to explore the processes of self-identification and self-validation within Alexandrian Diaspora Judaism. It focuses on the various ways that "us" and "them" are constructed, especially the way that each group is related to power. It concludes that the Wisdom of Solomon promotes a paradigm in which the universality and binary opposition that characterize empire are paradoxically transferred from a horizontal to a vertical plane, and that this shows both the usefulness and limits of a postcolonial reading for Wisdom.
ISSN:0008-4298
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0008429814548168